Saarbruecken Clinic continues RFID blood bank project
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[February 24, 2006]

Saarbruecken Clinic continues RFID blood bank project

(DMEurope Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)DMEUROPE-24 February 2006-Saarbruecken Clinic continues RFID blood bank project (C)2006 DMeurope.com (http://www.dmeurope.com) & DME Ltd. All rights reserved.

Blood bank supplies at Saarbruecken Clinic are now equipped with RFID (radio frequency identification) chips to prevent mix-ups with confusions and other blood treatments. In a combined effort, Siemens Business Services, Intel, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, RP Doc Solutions and IMP Computersysteme will extend the RFID pilot project already underway at the clinic.



In 2005, Siemens Business Services chose Saarbruecken as the first hospital in Germany to try out an RFID project for patient identification by fitting all patients admitted to the clinic with a bracelet containing an RFID chip. In the future, this system will be extended to blood bank supplies for around 1,000 patients.

When the blood bags reach the hospital, they are each equipped with an RFID chip on which a unique number has been stored. The number corresponds to an entry in a protected database containing information on the origin, designated purpose and recipient of the blood. When a nurse fetches a blood bag for a patient, he/she uses a PDA to read both the chip on the packaging and the data on the patient's RFID bracelet. Only if the data matches will the blood actually be used for the patient. This ensures that patients always receive the right transfusion in the right quantity. The data involved is immediately added to the clinic's process workflow and the patient's data records.



Siemens Business Services is acting as the prime contractor for the trial. The technological equipment involved in the RFID solution includes notebooks from Fujitsu Siemens Computers with access to the clinic's patient system, as well as Pocket Loox PDAs and Stylistic tablet PCs with Intel mobile technology. Rp Doc Solutions is in charge of the software for medication plans and storage, as well as for checking the dosages involved in various treatments.

The Saarbruecken project is based on an RFID solution already in use at the Jacobi Medical Center in New York City.

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